Re-Cording Lives : Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve
Pörtner, Ephraim
Re-Cording Lives : Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve - Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021 - 1 electronic resource (454 p.)
Open Access
Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of rendering asylum cases resolvable by re-cording the lives of applicants in terms of asylum. With his reading of power and agency in administrations, Ephraim Pörtner offers a critical view of the intricate relationship between practices of asylum casework and the governmental need to resolve claims of people seeking protection.
Creative Commons
English
9783839453490 9783839453490 9783837653496
10.14361/9783839453490 doi
Human geography
Migration, immigration & emigration
Asylum Governmentality Bureaucracy Switzerland Europe Fleeing Migration Social Geography Geography
Re-Cording Lives : Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve - Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021 - 1 electronic resource (454 p.)
Open Access
Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of rendering asylum cases resolvable by re-cording the lives of applicants in terms of asylum. With his reading of power and agency in administrations, Ephraim Pörtner offers a critical view of the intricate relationship between practices of asylum casework and the governmental need to resolve claims of people seeking protection.
Creative Commons
English
9783839453490 9783839453490 9783837653496
10.14361/9783839453490 doi
Human geography
Migration, immigration & emigration
Asylum Governmentality Bureaucracy Switzerland Europe Fleeing Migration Social Geography Geography